The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern TimesTrübner & Company, 1868 - 388 sider |
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... believe , only implied in tho Puranas . It is said , for instance , in the third chapter of the Vâmana - purdṇa , that Vârâṇast lies between the Varana and the Asi : हरिरुवाच । महेश्वर शृणुष्वेमां मम ...
... believe , only implied in tho Puranas . It is said , for instance , in the third chapter of the Vâmana - purdṇa , that Vârâṇast lies between the Varana and the Asi : हरिरुवाच । महेश्वर शृणुष्वेमां मम ...
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... believe that there were medieval Indian kings who , from motives of policy , adiaphorized between the two great classes of the faithful into which their subjects were divided . For instance , a position of practical indifference in ...
... believe that there were medieval Indian kings who , from motives of policy , adiaphorized between the two great classes of the faithful into which their subjects were divided . For instance , a position of practical indifference in ...
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... believe the greater part of the con- tents of the Káśi - khanda anterior to the first attack upon Benares by Mahmûd of Ghazni . " Thus pronounces Professor Wilson , in his translation of the Vishnu - purána , Vol . I. , Preface , pp ...
... believe the greater part of the con- tents of the Káśi - khanda anterior to the first attack upon Benares by Mahmûd of Ghazni . " Thus pronounces Professor Wilson , in his translation of the Vishnu - purána , Vol . I. , Preface , pp ...
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... to a studious life . The greater portion of them believe in the heretical doctrines ( of Hinduism ) , and few have respect for the Law ( religion ) of Buddha . The climate is temperate , grain is 8 BENARES , PAST AND PRESENT .
... to a studious life . The greater portion of them believe in the heretical doctrines ( of Hinduism ) , and few have respect for the Law ( religion ) of Buddha . The climate is temperate , grain is 8 BENARES , PAST AND PRESENT .
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... believe , continue to be . And , judging from the eagerness of many of her sons in the pur- suit of knowledge , from the quickened moral perceptions of the population generally , and from the sympathy which multitudes cherish for the ...
... believe , continue to be . And , judging from the eagerness of many of her sons in the pur- suit of knowledge , from the quickened moral perceptions of the population generally , and from the sympathy which multitudes cherish for the ...
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ANCIENT REMAINS antiquity architraves Asiatic Society Aśoka Bakaríyá Kund Bará Barna bass-relief bathe Benares Bengal Bisheswar Brahmans Buddha Buddhist building carved Ceylon chaityas Cheit Singh Chinese Christian cloister cloth College Crown 8vo deities Demy 8vo DICTIONARY Durgá edifice Edited enclosure English erected excavations existence F. J. FURNIVALL feet festival figure five formerly four Ganges Ghát goddess Government GRAMMAR ground height Hensleigh Wedgwood Hindu Hinduism Hiouen Thsang honour hundred idols inches India inscription Kâsis king Language LL.D Mahadeva Mahalla Melá miles Mohammedan monastery mosque native neighbourhood niches original ornamented pilgrims pillars plates portion Post 8vo present Professor Ráj Ghát Raja Rám Rámnagar religion religious river road Royal Asiatic Society ruins sacred Sanskrit Sárnáth sculptured sewed shrine side Siva spot stone Stupa T. W. RHYS DAVIDS tank temple terrace Text tower Translated Vihára viii wall Warren Hastings worship
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Side 30 - THE HISTORY OF ESARHADDON (Son of Sennacherib), King of Assyria, BC 681-668. Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Cylinders and Tablets in the British Museum Collection. Together with Original Texts, a Grammatical Analysis of each word, Explanations of the Ideographs by Extracts from the Bi-Lingual Syllabaries, and List of Eponyms, &c.
Side 16 - THE LIFE OR LEGEND OF GAUDAMA, THE BUDDHA OF THE BURMESE. With Annotations. The Ways to Neibban, and Notice on the Phongyies or Burmese Monks. BY THE RIGHT REV.
Side 48 - Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscripts, about 1650 AD By John W. Hales, MA, Fellow and late Assistant Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Frederick J. Furnivall, MA, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. 4to, large paper, half bound, Roxburghe style, pp. 64. 1867. 10s. 6d.
Side 60 - PRAKRITA-PRAKASA; or, The Prakrit Grammar of Vararuchi, with the Commentary (Manorama) of Bhamaha ; the first complete Edition of the Original Text, with various Readings from a collection of Six MSS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and the Libraries of the Royal Asiatic Society and the East India House ; with Copious Notes, an English Translation, and Index of Prakrit Words, to which is prefixed an Easy Introduction to Prakrit Grammar. By Edward Byles Cowell, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, Professor...
Side 4 - Hundreds of devotees came thither every month to die: for it was believed that a peculiarly happy fate awaited the man who should pass from the sacred city into the sacred river.
Side 203 - I resolved," these are the words of Hastings himself, "to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the Company's distresses, — to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to exact a severe vengeance for past delinquency.
Side 17 - Cunningham. — THE BHILSA TOPES ; or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India: comprising a brief Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Buddhism ; with an Account of the Opening and Examination of the various Groups of Topes around Bhilsa.
Side 44 - THE ROMANCE OF WILLIAM OF PALERNE (otherwise known as the Romance of William and the Werwolf). Translated from the French at the command of Sir Humphrey de Bohun, about AD 1350, to which is added a fragment of the Alliterative Romance of Alisaunder, translated from the Latin by the same author, about AD 1340 ; the former re-edited from the unique MR.
Side 4 - Commerce had as many pilgrims as religion. All along the shores of the venerable stream lay great fleets of vessels laden with rich merchandise. From the looms of Benares went forth the most delicate silks that adorned the balls of St. James's and of Versailles, and in the bazaars the muslins of Bengal and the sabres of Oude were mingled with the jewels of Golconda and the shawls of Cashmere.
Side 3 - Asia. It was commonly believed that half a million of human beings was crowded into that labyrinth of lofty alleys, rich with shrines, and minarets, and balconies, and carved oriels, to which the sacred apes clung by hundreds. The traveller could scarcely make his way through the press of holy mendicants, and not less holy bulls. The broad and...